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Forgotten Genius

Dr. Percy Julian

NOVA presents the remarkable life story of Percy Julian–-one of the most accomplished African-American scientists of the 20th century, and an industrialist, self-made millionaire, humanitarian and civil-rights pioneer. The grandson of Alabama slaves, he won worldwide acclaim for his research in chemistry and broke the color barrier in American science more than a decade before Jackie Robinson did so in baseball. He discovered a way to turn soybeans into synthetic steroids on an industrial scale, enabling drugs like cortisone to be widely available to millions of arthritis sufferers.

See "Forgotten Genius"–-a NOVA film biography of Dr. Percy Julian on PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/julian/

"Forgotten Genius" wins an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Journalism Award, see: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111126.

 

 

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Last Updated: Jul 10, 2008